New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-17

cohorts upon Washington will probably soon
bring forth fruits. A delegation from Kings
County solid for Cleveland in tho next Demo
cratic National Convention is already predicted.
How docs Governor Hill like this outlookp
Bon voyage to Sing Sing, McQuade, and may
your sojourn there be long.
What does all this meanp Collector SIagone
has sent to each of the fifteen hundred employees
OF the Custom House a series OF interrogatores
printed heavy cap paper These questions
demand information as to the nationality, ace.
date Of appointment, place of residence, salary.
and nature Of duties. Is this intended as an
extra Civil Service examination after the Col
lector's own Idea? Who. pays for this uncalled
for large expenditure Of paper, envelopes, print
ing, folding and addressing.
1t is cheerfully anticipated in Boston that the
appearance of the promised volume OF Personal
"reminiscences by DR.. John Lawrence Sullivan
win knock out in one round, as 1t were, all talk
about that ciy's decline as literary centre.
"The Brooklyn Eagle says that Collector
Magone would rather be rejected than con-
fImed7 by the Senate. We do not know "The
Eagles sources Of information, but we fancy
that Mr.. Magone would hardly relish the idea of
going back TO Ogdensburg with the cloud of re-
lection resting over him. At any rate, II he
doesn't want the Office there are hosts OF hungry
Democrats who would be willing to take it,
1t is four weeks to-day since McQuade was SEN
fenced. To-day he will go to Sing Sing. What
has he gained by the delay secured by his counsel
and by Judge traits illness The only tangible
result is that he will have one month more in
the of Ctafa Al fka, ffxvT
Walsh has had an opportunity to minister to the
convict's comfort for fortnight. Surely that's
something-for Fatty"
The development Of the natural resources Of
Siberia is a subject just now Occupying much OF
the attention of the Car. 1t has been presented
to him in forcible manDer by Count Ignatieff
and Baron Korff, the Govemors-General respec-
lively Of Eastern Siberia and the Amour, and
they represent that IL is only the incesSant flood
ing of that country with eXiled criminals that
keeps Siberia in the state of a wilderness The
native population is corrupted and In many ways
injured by this influx, and the numerous out
breaks and attempts to escape made by the exiles
keep the country in a const ant ferment. Protests
against this penal colonization have hitherto
been unavailing, and year by year the number
OF conyicts sent thither has increased. In the
century preceding 1864 about one million persons
were exiled TO Siberia. From 1864 to the present
time fully seven hundred thousand more have
been sent, and the rate at present is about fifty
thousand q year The hope that these eXiles
would In time become settled colonistS has not
been realized. Ninety -nine per cent Of them
seem to have but one desire. to escape from
Siberia and fully one-fourth Of the entire num-
Der are always in flight. This enormous number
Of roaming fugitives most OF them. OF course
utterly lawless. keeps the country IN a state OF
terror and confusion that paralyzes all social and
industrial progress. The plan to relieve Siberia
OF this burden may not be approved for the
Russian autocrat Is little in sympathy with
progress and reform. But that 1t may is earnestly
desired by the high officers of the Empire who
are best acquainted with the subject.
Since the death OF tho Pro-Woon, the most
striking news that has reached this country
lately from Burmah Is contained In the foreign
dispatches this morning. They announce that
lila 90 has made oveItures for surrender and that
Doh Shway is negotiating for peace.